Australian State and Territory Governments regularly deploy wholly owned development corporations to advance urban planning objectives to do with competition in greenfield housing production, innovation in urban design and regeneration of obsolete industrial areas. This paper critically examines the rationale for these corporations, and compares practices in Australia with those in the US, drawing on...

A report on a three-year project to assess the economic value of public libraries in Victoria. It finds that $36 per capita is spent on public libraries in Victoria each year and that Victorian public libraries return $3.56 for every $1 spent. It uses these findings to argue for further investment in Victorian public libraries.

To enable literary publishers and other literary organisations to distribute and market writing more effectively in Australia and increase the income of writers, it is imperative to gain a better understanding of the structure of the literary publishing industry and the potential readership for literary genres.

The East Arnhem Land Business Development Approach is a pilot business model for developing and supporting small businesses in remote Indigenous communities. To date, it has been implemented in several communities in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory.

Fixing Houses for Better Health projects target the improvement of houses and household living conditions in remote and rural Indigenous communities, using a method knowing as 'housing for health', which recognises the connection between a series of healthy living practices and the quality and condition of housing. This paper is an evaluation of the projects...